[807] in Athena User Interface
Re: panel icons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Sun Jun 24 08:25:45 2001
Message-Id: <200106241225.IAA17165@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Tim Blackburn <timblack@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU,
John Kramer <jkramer@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 08:25:41 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
> I don't appear to have gotten the original message beland is
> replying to, so I can't look at the unedited icons from PSB.
I dumped the attachment I got in /mit/aui/icons/all-icons.png.
Mostly-cropped versions with the white b/g are in
/mit/aui/icons/white/.
> > For some reason, they came through at this end with a white
> > background
> You checked this with xmag or something, rather than just eyeballing
> it? The default panel background we have is pretty darn close to
> white (as close as d7 is to ff), although it still manges to lo ok
> grayish in a big strip.
No need to check close up; it was quite blatant when the seperated and
cropped icons were installed in the panel. It's also easy to tell if
the background is not transparent because it lights up when you hover
the mouse over it.
> I note that the text is unreadable if you bring up the edited images
> with a dark background. This is a fundamental problem with having
> anti-aliased text in the icons. We might be better off just making
> the icons have the d7d7d7 background so that the text remains
> readable (even if the icons look bad) in the face of panel color
> changes.
The most tasteful thing to do might be to put a d7d7d7-colored
rectangle behind the text so that it's always readable, but so that
the whole oddly-shaped background doesn't light up. I can whip that
up on Tuesday if no one beats me to it.
-B.
